Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself.
I understand only too well why Russians with means have all made tracks abroad ... If the ship is about to sink, the rats are the first to desert it.
Sometimes she put that question to her husband, and, as usual, she asked it hysterically, threateningly, expecting an immediate reply.
In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront
Now, I know myself, I am annoyed, I shall loose my temper and begin to quarrel, and demean myself and my ideas.
If Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face
love vanishes.
love vanishes.
People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Actually on the point of tears, though I knew perfectly well at that moment that all this was out of Pushkin's Silvio and Lermontov's Masquerade.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid - and I know they are - yet I won't be wiser?
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
A special buffet would be opened at the end of a suite of rooms, and Prokhorych (the head chef at the club) would be in charge
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life ... But on the whole you will bless life all the same.
People are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.
Heavy burdens are not for everyone, for some they are impossible ... These are my thoughts, if you need them so much.
Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.
Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard; it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.
Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are.
Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it's not true and that it's blushing now just as I am blushing all over.
He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.
Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
For the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems now
that it has failed ... (Everything seems stupid when it fails.)
that it has failed ... (Everything seems stupid when it fails.)
( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
For the whole world to vanish into thin air, or for me not to drink my tea? I say, let the world perish if I can always drink my tea.
I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.
In a word, many flattering things were said of them. But there was some criticism. People spoke with horror of the number of books they had read.
In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children. When